Helping Members to better understand some of the naval terms (both German and English) used in World War II and in our KTB.
REICHMARINE German Navy between 1919 and 1935
RITTERKREUZ Knights Cross
RITTERKREUZTRÄGER Soldier who was awarded the Knights Cross
ROHR The word means just ‘pipe’, so the seerohr was the periscope, torpedorohr was the torpedo tube.
ROTTERDAM APPARATUS German name for a British short wave radar found in the wreckage of a British plane shot down over Holland.
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